Review: The Turin Horse
Béla Tarr is known for his long takes and his bleak view of humanity. In my essay about watching his seven-hour film Sátántangó, ...
Flixist Awards 2011: Best Foreign Film
Thinking about my favorite movies last year, quite a few of them were foreign productions. The difficulty was picking just one to vote ...
Trailers
Trailer: Comin’ at Ya! 3D
There’s something about this trailer for Comin’ at Ya! 3D that makes me downright giddy. Maybe it’s because this is a revival of ...
The official SXSW 2012 feature film lineup
Yesterday the full film lineup was announced for SXSW 2012. It looks phenomenal, with 130 feature films showing over the course of nine ...
Mos Def & John Hawkes are Jackie Brown prequel stars
A lot of people forget or don’t realize that Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown is an adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s 1992 novel Rum Punch. ...
Mulligan, Adams, Morton may join new Spike Jonze film
Rejoice, good people. A new Spike Jonze film is on the horizon, and the cast is beginning to fill out quite nicely. Carey ...
Matt Lieberman to write doomed Short Circuit remake
As a kid, I really loved the Short Circuit movies. In fact, I still love them — Short Circuit 2 is a fine ...
Book: The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia
While I’d been into The Three Stooges at an early age and got into both Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton in high school, ...
Trailers
Trailer: This is Not a Film
In December of 2010, the Iranian government sentenced filmmaker Jafar Panahi to six years in jail and banned him from making any films, ...
Chronicle marketing makes you believe three men can fly
Generally I’m not one to go gaga for marketing ploys, but I have to admit, this promotional stunt for Chronicle is pretty cool. ...
Ridley Scott’s Alien through the eyes of an 11 year old
Sometimes as a kid you aren’t allowed to see a movie, which forces you to create it in your head. That’s probably the ...
Ridley Scott eyeing Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor
In mid-January we mentioned that Cormac McCarthy sold his first spec script, The Counselor. Turns out he didn’t have to wait long before ...